A researcher says she has uncovered vital testimony by a U.S. officer whom the Nazis forced in 1943 to watch the exhumation of Polish officers killed on Soviet leader Josef Stalin's orders.

Krystyna Piorkowska said Wednesday she found the May 10, 1945, report by Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. in archives near Washington. It provides evidence of Soviet responsibility for the 1940 massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest and other places in the then-Soviet Union.

Van Vliet's later, longer report is considered missing, which has fueled speculation that the U.S. silenced the truth.

Van Vliet was a POW in Germany when he was taken to Katyn to see the evidence.

Until 1990, Moscow blamed the Nazis, but then admitted Stalin ordered the massacre.

Actually, most people knew this was the Russians even at the Nuremberg Trials of the Major War Criminals (1945-46). The Soviets tried to pin it on the Nazis there, but if you look at the judgement, there is no mention of Nazi responsibility for the Katyn Massacre; the French, British and US judges were not impressed by the Soviet evidence and believed the evidence put together by Göring's defence lawyer, Dr. Stahmer.(Transcripts from the appropriate part of the trial here: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/07-01-46.asp)

The "Van Vliet" name is, of course, equally interesting. But I believe I read in the Mike Barnes biography that Don just arbitrarily added the "Van" to his surname to appear more mysterious.

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The "Van Vliet" name is, of course, equally interesting. But I believe I read in the Mike Barnes biography that Don just arbitrarily added the "Van" to his surname to appear more mysterious.

I remember an interview where FZ alluded to the same, about the name Van being thrown in.

As for the former, we were taught in school about the Russian land grab and lots of the atrocities that we thought were Nazi's, really were the Russian's doings after WWII. Stalin killed a lot more of his people than Hitler. We used it as propaganda against the Ruskies during the Cold War, so I learned the right stuff in HS back then. It is Berkeley, CA. HS after all. My uncle A. Z. was in on the first wave of US troops into Berlin and right to Der Bunker itself. Same day he shook hands with the Ruskies for the press and stuff. More propaganda. He stayed on during the reconstruction period. He was in stationed in Germany for 6 yrs. after the war that I know of. He went in '43 and sent straight over there.(Italy) He sent home post cards chronicling that time on. Very interesting reading and all on postcards, so each picture/PC he tells a personal story or the history of the place itself, all from Italy, France and Germany, through the end of the war until he left in '55 or so. Very cool stuff!

Van der Vliet is a Dutch last name. It means "of the stream". Although it's not entirely unheard of for location names (like "of the mountain" or "of the plough") to lose the "of the", Vliet alone is not very common. Neither is Van Vliet. It probably happened when Beefheart went to the States, some of these words got gobbled up by whoever wrote down their name.

The driver must have had one too many drinks. Now if he had just one super bowl, that might not have happened at all.

Completely understandable, there are just so many distractions in todays modern cars, who has time to look out of the windshield when you are simultaneously shaving, eating breakfast, watching a movie, checking your e mails and following the directions on the sat nav, not to mention reading the liner notes of your latest Zappa release whilst reloading the cd stacker....cyclist what cyclist

Eric Lawson portrayed iconic cigarette-puffing cowboy from 1978 to 1981 His death follows those of Marlboro Men, David Millar, who died of emphysema in 1987, and David McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1995 Lawson also featured in hit US TV show Beretta, Charlie's Angels and Baywatch Later appeared in anti-smoking commercial that parodied Marlboro man Died aged 72 on January 10 from smoking-related respiratory failure

The Bieber likeness on display at Tussauds New York on West 42nd Street has been groped, fondled and grabbed by so many excited fans that exhibit organizers have had to withdraw the dummy from display.

Train drivers in The Netherlands are shocked by a sculpture near Lisse. The Bikinibar, by Joep van Lieshout, is 9 meters long and depicts a torso wearing a bikini. The train drivers complain about it bringing up nasty memories of suicide by train jumpers.Van Lieshout is troubled by the affair, but is not prepared to remove the work. He does want to give the train drivers a guided tour.In turn, the train drivers have invited the artist for a guided tour of a train right after it hit a person.

A former US Marine has claimed that he spent 17 years defending humanity on the surface of Mars.

The former serviceman who goes by the name 'Captain K', but who we are unable to verify independently, reportedly claims that he was sent there to hold back the tides of alien invaders at five separate colony bases.

The man claims to have worked for the 'Earth Defence Force', joined by fighters from countries including the US, Russia and China.

Speaking to ExoNews TV, he said that the training for his mission took place on Titan, Earth's moon and deep space.

There is no evidence that any of this is true, of course. But there might be evidence that Kaye, whoever he is, might deserve as much help and empathy as he does ridicule.

Read in the newspaper today that a man in Bavaria couldn't pay the bill in the pub where he has drunken a lot of beer. So he left his three years old daughter in the pub as deposit and promised to come back with the money. One hour later (the little girl was crying all the time) he still didn't come back and the waitress called the police. Sounds funny but probably wasn't in any way.

Perhaps, like Derek and Clive, he thought it resembled Joan Crawford's nether regions...

"CLIVE:Anyway, I was cleaning the window .....DEREK:Yeah.CLIVE:..... this fucking wind blew up; tropical storm invaded the, you know, the bedroom .....DEREK:Mmm.CLIVE:..... and .....DEREK:(chuckles)CLIVE:..... I was swept away by this huge gust of wind .....DEREK:Yeah.CLIVE:..... straight up her fucking cunt. I went .....DEREK:Oh no.CLIVE:Yeah, I went straight through the nylon underwear,DEREK:Mmm.CLIVE:Tore through the diaphragm she was wearing,DEREK:Yeah.CLIVE:And then, there was no exit, one end was rubber, and up the other end .....DEREK:Mm-mm.CLIVE:..... the biggest fucking disaster area I've ever fucking seen.DEREK:Really?CLIVE:Ow f-. You've heard of the Bermuda Triangle?DEREK:Yeah.CLIVE:Well, this was worse.DEREK:Tch.CLIVE:Up Joan Crawford's cunt there are fucking fleets of ships, light aircraft .....DEREK:(laughs)Hamburger stands?CLIVE:Hamburger stands. But no fucking hamburgers .....DEREK:Right, no.CLIVE:..... just the fucking stands.DEREK:Right."

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